Chris Lang
@reddmonitor.bsky.social
Your daily reminder that carbon offsets are a scam.
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“Almost none of the deeds were valid. The preservation programs, she said, were built on a lie.”
Washington Post’s investigation into “carbon cowboys” in the Brazilian Amazon focusses on Michael Greene’s REDD projects - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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Washington Post’s investigation into “carbon cowboys” in the Brazilian Amazon focusses on Michael Greene’s REDD projects - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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Washington Post’s investigation into “carbon cowboys” in the Brazilian Amazon focusses on Michael Greene’s REDD projects
The investigation found that more than half of all REDD projects in the Amazon overlapped with public land.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
“Almost none of the deeds were valid. The preservation programs, she said, were built on a lie.”
Washington Post’s investigation into “carbon cowboys” in the Brazilian Amazon focusses on Michael Greene’s REDD projects - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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Washington Post’s investigation into “carbon cowboys” in the Brazilian Amazon focusses on Michael Greene’s REDD projects - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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No one is better than the carbon industry at constantly re-branding concepts without changing the fundamentals of the concept *at. all.*
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 AM
No one is better than the carbon industry at constantly re-branding concepts without changing the fundamentals of the concept *at. all.*
A Canadian lithium mine in Brazil claims to be "carbon neutral".
Thanks to a REDD project, now suspended, set up by Ricardo Stoppe - charged with corruption, illegal deforestation, financial crime, land grabbing, money laundering, and criminal organisation.
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Thanks to a REDD project, now suspended, set up by Ricardo Stoppe - charged with corruption, illegal deforestation, financial crime, land grabbing, money laundering, and criminal organisation.
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Sigma Lithium claims that its mine in Brazil is “carbon neutral”. It bought REDD carbon credits from the Unitor REDD project, which is now suspended and accused of illegal logging
Ricardo Stoppe Júnior, the man behind the Unitor REDD project, is accused of selling about US$34 million illegal REDD credits.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
A Canadian lithium mine in Brazil claims to be "carbon neutral".
Thanks to a REDD project, now suspended, set up by Ricardo Stoppe - charged with corruption, illegal deforestation, financial crime, land grabbing, money laundering, and criminal organisation.
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Thanks to a REDD project, now suspended, set up by Ricardo Stoppe - charged with corruption, illegal deforestation, financial crime, land grabbing, money laundering, and criminal organisation.
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Exactly!
We need to just stop burning oil. Anything else is suicidal.
November 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Exactly!
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“Just as carbon offsetting delays climate ambition, biodiversity offsetting will only delay urgent action on addressing the root causes of biodiversity loss.”
Civil society statement on biodiversity offsets & credits - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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Civil society statement on biodiversity offsets & credits - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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Civil society statement on biodiversity offsets and credits
“A wrong answer to the wrong question.”
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November 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
“Just as carbon offsetting delays climate ambition, biodiversity offsetting will only delay urgent action on addressing the root causes of biodiversity loss.”
Civil society statement on biodiversity offsets & credits - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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Civil society statement on biodiversity offsets & credits - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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CarbonPlan recently wrote a critique of Verra’s response to the 15.2 million fake carbon credits sold by the Kariba REDD project in Zimbabwe.
CarbonPlan describes Kariba as “the REDD+ offset project that has been synonymous with carbon market dysfunction”.
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CarbonPlan describes Kariba as “the REDD+ offset project that has been synonymous with carbon market dysfunction”.
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The Kariba REDD project reveals a “deep structural flaw” in Verra’s carbon credit programme
Analysis by CarbonPlan shows that Verra’s proposed solution to Kariba’s “excess credits” simply does not work.
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November 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
CarbonPlan recently wrote a critique of Verra’s response to the 15.2 million fake carbon credits sold by the Kariba REDD project in Zimbabwe.
CarbonPlan describes Kariba as “the REDD+ offset project that has been synonymous with carbon market dysfunction”.
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CarbonPlan describes Kariba as “the REDD+ offset project that has been synonymous with carbon market dysfunction”.
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This statement by 55 social movements and organisation from Latin America and the Caribbean rejects carbon markets.
It is also a rejection of eco-modernism, the green economy, which rely on technocratic and managerial solutions.
And it rejects capitalism.
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It is also a rejection of eco-modernism, the green economy, which rely on technocratic and managerial solutions.
And it rejects capitalism.
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Shoutao Wu (@shouatowu)
This is more than just a statement denouncing the coloniality of carbon markets. It is a fundamental rejection of the ontological capture in eco-modernism and the green economy, which rely on technocr...
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November 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This statement by 55 social movements and organisation from Latin America and the Caribbean rejects carbon markets.
It is also a rejection of eco-modernism, the green economy, which rely on technocratic and managerial solutions.
And it rejects capitalism.
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It is also a rejection of eco-modernism, the green economy, which rely on technocratic and managerial solutions.
And it rejects capitalism.
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The latest in Simon Counsell and Jutta Kill's briefings: "Crooked Carbon Business".
This one's about The Nature Conservancy's fake carbon offsets at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association in the USA.
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This one's about The Nature Conservancy's fake carbon offsets at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association in the USA.
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Crooked Carbon Business: Hawk Mountain Improved Forest Management Project, USA
The Nature Conservancy’s fake carbon offsets.
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November 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The latest in Simon Counsell and Jutta Kill's briefings: "Crooked Carbon Business".
This one's about The Nature Conservancy's fake carbon offsets at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association in the USA.
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This one's about The Nature Conservancy's fake carbon offsets at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association in the USA.
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World Rainforest Movement’s sign on statement to stop the Tropical Forest Forever Facility.
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STOP the TFFF now!
World Rainforest Movement has put out a sign on statement to stop the TFFF.
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November 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
World Rainforest Movement’s sign on statement to stop the Tropical Forest Forever Facility.
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📢 In September 2025, I wrote about a scam company operating in Peru called Green Home.
☠️ Last week, the company’s investment scheme collapsed.
💣 The money to pay existing investors came from new investors. It was a Ponzi scheme, in other words.
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☠️ Last week, the company’s investment scheme collapsed.
💣 The money to pay existing investors came from new investors. It was a Ponzi scheme, in other words.
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The Green Home Ponzi scheme has collapsed in Peru
Green Home's app and website have gone and the owners have disappeared with the money.
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October 31, 2025 at 11:34 AM
📢 In September 2025, I wrote about a scam company operating in Peru called Green Home.
☠️ Last week, the company’s investment scheme collapsed.
💣 The money to pay existing investors came from new investors. It was a Ponzi scheme, in other words.
reddmonitor.substack.com/p/the-green-...
☠️ Last week, the company’s investment scheme collapsed.
💣 The money to pay existing investors came from new investors. It was a Ponzi scheme, in other words.
reddmonitor.substack.com/p/the-green-...
Anyone wondering what to think about Bill Gates' comments on the climate crisis - please read this!
notes on gatesnotes, in a thread
"A new way to look at the problem" - er, no, he's been running this line for DECADES
On the headline: you can absolutely guarantee anyone presenting themselves as telling tough, hard truths is about to deliver some self-aggrandising nonsense
"A new way to look at the problem" - er, no, he's been running this line for DECADES
On the headline: you can absolutely guarantee anyone presenting themselves as telling tough, hard truths is about to deliver some self-aggrandising nonsense
October 30, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Anyone wondering what to think about Bill Gates' comments on the climate crisis - please read this!
The Philippines recently set up regulations for generating, managing, and monitoring carbon credits.
Climate Justice activists slammed the new regulation as “a dangerous new frontier for carbon colonialism”.
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Climate Justice activists slammed the new regulation as “a dangerous new frontier for carbon colonialism”.
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New carbon credit regulation in the Philippines is “a dangerous new frontier for carbon colonialism”
The Peoples Rising for Climate Justice - Philippines slammed the new regulation.
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October 30, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The Philippines recently set up regulations for generating, managing, and monitoring carbon credits.
Climate Justice activists slammed the new regulation as “a dangerous new frontier for carbon colonialism”.
reddmonitor.substack.com/p/new-carbon...
Climate Justice activists slammed the new regulation as “a dangerous new frontier for carbon colonialism”.
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A Paris Court ruled last week that TotalEnergies misled consumers by claiming that it could be carbon neutral by 2050 - while continuing exploration and extraction of fossil fuels.
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TotalEnergies found guilty of greenwashing
Following a lawsuit filed by Greenpeace France, Les Amis de la Terre France, and Notre Affaire à Tous, with the support of ClientEarth.
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October 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
A Paris Court ruled last week that TotalEnergies misled consumers by claiming that it could be carbon neutral by 2050 - while continuing exploration and extraction of fossil fuels.
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The first in a series of briefings by Simon Counsell and Jutta Kill takes a detailed look at the Architecture for REDD+ Transactions programme in Guyana.
Jurisdictional REDD doesn’t solve the problems with REDD, it just magnifies them.
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Jurisdictional REDD doesn’t solve the problems with REDD, it just magnifies them.
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Crooked Carbon Business: Architecture for REDD+ Transactions, Guyana
Far from solving the problems of REDD projects, jurisdictional REDD magnifies the problems.
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October 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
The first in a series of briefings by Simon Counsell and Jutta Kill takes a detailed look at the Architecture for REDD+ Transactions programme in Guyana.
Jurisdictional REDD doesn’t solve the problems with REDD, it just magnifies them.
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Jurisdictional REDD doesn’t solve the problems with REDD, it just magnifies them.
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Joe Sanberg, co-founder of Aspiration Partners, has pleaded guilty to a US$248 million fraud.
Sentencing is planned for 23 February 2026.
He could be sentenced up to 40 years in jail.
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Sentencing is planned for 23 February 2026.
He could be sentenced up to 40 years in jail.
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Joe Sanberg, co-founder of carbon trading company Aspiration, pleads guilty to US$248 million fraud
But will the Commodity Futures Trading Commission complete its investigation into the carbon credits that Aspiration bought?
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October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Joe Sanberg, co-founder of Aspiration Partners, has pleaded guilty to a US$248 million fraud.
Sentencing is planned for 23 February 2026.
He could be sentenced up to 40 years in jail.
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Sentencing is planned for 23 February 2026.
He could be sentenced up to 40 years in jail.
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80% of environmental professionals in the UK have concerns about the credibility & transparency of carbon offsetting schemes - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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80% of environmental professionals in the UK have concerns about the credibility and transparency of carbon offsetting schemes
According to the National Environmental Services Survey.
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October 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
80% of environmental professionals in the UK have concerns about the credibility & transparency of carbon offsetting schemes - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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🚨BREAKING : The Green Party has passed 150,000 members 🥳
Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform.
Are you in?
Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now ⤵️
Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform.
Are you in?
Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now ⤵️
October 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🚨BREAKING : The Green Party has passed 150,000 members 🥳
Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform.
Are you in?
Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now ⤵️
Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform.
Are you in?
Make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now ⤵️
"Carbon credits are failing to help with climate change - here's why" is a recent paper, published in Nature magazine.
It documents "fatal flaws" with offsets:
🚨 "Hot air";
🚨 Additionality;
🚨 Permanence; and
🚨 Offsets distract from ending fossil fuels.
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It documents "fatal flaws" with offsets:
🚨 "Hot air";
🚨 Additionality;
🚨 Permanence; and
🚨 Offsets distract from ending fossil fuels.
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Climate policy experts call for “excluding or phasing out offsets from carbon-pricing schemes and other climate policy processes”
A call to “act on the science”.
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October 27, 2025 at 11:31 AM
"Carbon credits are failing to help with climate change - here's why" is a recent paper, published in Nature magazine.
It documents "fatal flaws" with offsets:
🚨 "Hot air";
🚨 Additionality;
🚨 Permanence; and
🚨 Offsets distract from ending fossil fuels.
reddmonitor.substack.com/p/climate-po...
It documents "fatal flaws" with offsets:
🚨 "Hot air";
🚨 Additionality;
🚨 Permanence; and
🚨 Offsets distract from ending fossil fuels.
reddmonitor.substack.com/p/climate-po...
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🎧 Geoff Tansey recently interviewed GRAIN on carbon markets, greenwashing and the new rush for farmland. Check it out:
geofftansey.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c... @reddmonitor.bsky.social @coveringclimatenow.org @1teresaanderson.bsky.social #COP30
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October 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
🎧 Geoff Tansey recently interviewed GRAIN on carbon markets, greenwashing and the new rush for farmland. Check it out:
geofftansey.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c... @reddmonitor.bsky.social @coveringclimatenow.org @1teresaanderson.bsky.social #COP30
geofftansey.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c... @reddmonitor.bsky.social @coveringclimatenow.org @1teresaanderson.bsky.social #COP30
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The “Tropical Forest Forever Facility”, to be launched at COP30, is supposed to fund forest conservation. Instead, it will benefit investors in debt markets, which drive deforestation. Please endorse the #StopTFFF statement: www.wrm.org.uy/node/20790 @reddmonitor.bsky.social @foeint.bsky.social
Sign this statement to STOP the TFFF now! | World Rainforest Movement
We call on groups, organisations and movements to sign on to this statement to STOP the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF), a new initiative supposedly for funding forest conservation that will b...
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October 23, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The “Tropical Forest Forever Facility”, to be launched at COP30, is supposed to fund forest conservation. Instead, it will benefit investors in debt markets, which drive deforestation. Please endorse the #StopTFFF statement: www.wrm.org.uy/node/20790 @reddmonitor.bsky.social @foeint.bsky.social
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Thanks! I could have been tempted…
October 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Thanks! I could have been tempted…
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Rabobank’s tree planting project in Côte d’Ivoire overestimates carbon credits by 600%. Microsoft is one of the buyers of these credits - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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Rabobank’s tree planting project in Côte d’Ivoire overestimates carbon credits by 600%. Microsoft is one of the buyers of these credits
No provable additionality. And double counting.
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October 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Rabobank’s tree planting project in Côte d’Ivoire overestimates carbon credits by 600%. Microsoft is one of the buyers of these credits - @reddmonitor.bsky.social
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“There are people who’ve showed up and have offered lots of money, but we’ve said no. We don’t want carbon projects in our territory.”
Shapiom Noningo Sesan, leader of the Wampis nation, Peru, September 2025
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Shapiom Noningo Sesan, leader of the Wampis nation, Peru, September 2025
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REDDisms: October 2025
An occasional series of the things people say about carbon trading, the climate crisis, and REDD.
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October 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
“There are people who’ve showed up and have offered lots of money, but we’ve said no. We don’t want carbon projects in our territory.”
Shapiom Noningo Sesan, leader of the Wampis nation, Peru, September 2025
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Shapiom Noningo Sesan, leader of the Wampis nation, Peru, September 2025
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Alles bereit für CARBON NEGATIVE Kompensations-Performance im Lichthof Theater. Heute und Morgen in #Hamburg.
#Performance #Klima #CO2
#Performance #Klima #CO2
October 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Alles bereit für CARBON NEGATIVE Kompensations-Performance im Lichthof Theater. Heute und Morgen in #Hamburg.
#Performance #Klima #CO2
#Performance #Klima #CO2